Literacy is changing. Students’ lives are changing. myPerspectives® Texas English Language Arts helps you make literacy learning socially, culturally, and digitally relevant. It combines powerful ELA practices with amazing literacy resources, planning tools, and digital media. It’s literacy that impacts students’ lives and expands perspectives.
Empower and inspire lifelong literacy learning with high quality instructional resources, engaging content, cutting-edge technology, and purposeful activities that develop students into confident, effective, and powerful communicators.
Authentic, multi-genre texts engage readers and writers with purpose and passion using a rich mix of print, media, and technology. Lessons are highly interactive, collaborative, and student-centric to encourage creative and critical thinking.
A gradual release model builds on students’ prior ideas and knowledge while helping you differentiate for understanding. Each unit lets you teach in the most supportive way possible—from whole-class learning, to peer-group learning, to independent learning.
Flexible resources and assessment practices help you be intentional, informed, and effective in adapting to students’ needs. Leverage dozens of TEKS-aligned resources. myPerspectives Texas empowers you to innovate, reflect, and use what works best.
myPerspectives Texas on Savvas Realize® lets students use technology to make learning come alive with multimedia resources, personalized learning tools, and interactive lessons and video tutorials.
Each unit is backward designed from the Performance-Based Assessment and provides a gradual release instructional model. In Whole-Class Learning, the teacher models close reading and writing. In Peer-Group Learning, students work in teams to complete a project. In Independent Learning, students apply the skills they’ve learned.
At the end of the unit, students pull together everything they’ve done to complete the Performance-Based Assessment. The teacher role moves from instructor to facilitator to advisor, and students develop ownership of learning as they set their own goals and work in larger groups, smaller teams, and independently.
myPerspectives Texas on Savvas Realize® includes the student and teacher materials as well as robust tools, interactive resources, and additional content including multimedia, current events, and translation support.
Curated public radio stories help students connect what is happening in the world to literature in the classroom. Listenwise® brings the power of public radio to ELA classrooms with:
Jim is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning of the University of Toronto. His research focuses on literacy development in multilingual school contexts as well as on the potential roles of technology in promoting language and literacy development. In recent years, he has been working actively with teachers to identify ways of increasing the literacy engagement of learners in multilingual school contexts.
Kelly is a literacy education author and consultant, specializing in the teaching of English Language Arts for grades 4-12. Informed by a 35-year teaching career, Kelly has developed and shares an ever-evolving body of work that helps teachers engage and empower even the most reluctant readers and writers. Kelly is the former president of the Secondary Reading Group for the International Literacy Association and the author of several professional development books.
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Freddy is President and CEO of TextProject, a nonprofit that provides resources to support higher reading levels. She is also a research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has worked in the field of early reading acquisition for 45 years, first as a teacher’s aide and teacher of primary-level students in California and, subsequently, as a teacher and researcher.
Ernest is the Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters; Coyle Professor in Literacy Education; Director, Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education; Director, NCTE James R. Squire Office for Policy Research; and Professor, English and Africana Studies Departments at the University of Notre Dame. He was the Macy Professor of English Education and former Director of Teachers College’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), Columbia University; a class of 2014 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association; and the Past-President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
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Savvas Realize® brings our award-winning content to life in an exciting digital experience that students love. For teachers and admins, it includes valuable classroom-management tools like auto-rostering, single-sign-on, and available integrations with many top K-12 LMSs.
Preview your week ahead, adjust your daily lesson plans, review student and class progress, build and share lessons with your own content, or easily search for differentiated resources to inspire more “lightbulb” moments for your students. Realize’s single-sign-on platform makes it all easy and manageable.
Make logging into your Realize dashboard an essential daily activity–just like checking your school email and Google Classroom accounts–to get a clear, organized path to your learning goals.